Selective feeding in birds depends on combined processing in the left and right brain hemisphere

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 233-240

  Prior, Helmut ^a   Wilzeck, Christiane ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Birds; Evolution; Hemispheric cooperation; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NONHUMAN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHICKENS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 38149021416     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.07.014     Document Type: Article

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